Architecture
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- 07.Sep
- Livable Streets c. 1969
Urban Omnibus unearths Ulrich Franzen’s 1969 video manifesto for rethinking Manhattan’s streets.
- 04.Sep
- Noble Salvage
Construction autodidact Dan Phillips builds low income housing out of salvaged wood, cork, glass and generously-attained plots.
- 08.Aug
- Coming Home To Roots
A ground-up collective of young professionals turned urban farmers sow seeds of eco-consciousness in Singapore, showing by example.
Business
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- 17.Nov
- It’s Time To Think Design.
Considering the case for a user-centred design thinking approach to, well, everything here.
- 03.Nov
- A Holy Smoke.
Puff the magic gadget: considering the case for a new smoking paradigm.
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- 29.Aug
- Creative Hospitality.
Swedish clothing brand Elvine spin a new yarn on Corporate Social Responsibility through Creator’s Inn, offering free digs for jetsetting creators.
Culture
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- 03.Nov
- Small Trades.
Irving Penn’s Small Trades project is a fascinating urban anthropological survey of midcentury labour, disappearing and otherwise.
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- 16.Sep
- Talking Bikeheads.
Artist-musician David Byrne installs place-specific bike racks in New York City to humorous effect.
- 08.Aug
- Street Singin’
Trend Report: Shed the urban straitjacket, grab your guitar, and take to the streets with music.
Devotion
- 13.Sep
- Elevate TV #02: Chart Toppers
Laughing at your own expense is a higher order art. Our second video for Elevate here!
- 04.Sep
- Elevate TV #01: Chair
Getting off my seat to explore the expressive limits of a chair & room, through stop motion video.
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- 12.Aug
- To Become Some
Thinking About Relevance.
General
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- 15.Oct
- Mapping the City.
Darryl X Shan on the Radio Substation Special Podcast for the Singapore Art Show.
- 09.Aug
- Killing Me Softly.
I can offer free but not necessarily great tunes.
- 09.Aug
- Merdeka!
We Are Live! Shan celebrates Singapore’s 44 years with future-forward thinking.
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Thought Pieces is an ongoing survey of stuff I find interesting.
By taking inventory of intersecting trends and interests, Thought Pieces is an attempt to translate thought to reality.
It’s a sketchbook, a storehouse, and an open workshop of ideas about how to make life better.
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